A long hot Summer in Palestine

2018, Documentary

“I’m 16 and I’ve already been through 3 wars.” Farah Baker, a young Palestinian, denounced in a tweet followed by 70 000 people, the situation of Gazans under the Israeli blockade.

Summer 2014, shocked by her tweet and by the war on Gaza, I took my camera and encountered Palestinians in Bethlehem before, during and after the war on Gaza. Through an artist, a banker, a florist, a woman race driver, a woman mayor… We discover how they are affected by this conflict in their daily life and how they rebuild their society despite the oppression.

Selected in Ciné Palestine film festival and at Women film festival in Toulouse, December 2017. / Selected at Women film festival in Créteil, March 2018. / Was in competition at Tetouan International Film Festival in Morroco, Sardinia Arab film festival, March 2018. / Selected at ERAP film festival in the Rhône Alpes-Auvergne region, April 2018. / Got Special Mention , April 2018 in an Italian film festival: 16° Festival internationale Segni della Notte (Urbino, Italy). / Is in competition at Arab film festival in Paris at IMA (Institut du Monde Arabe) in June-July 2018.